Several Missing After Madrid Building Collapse - Spain

An officer of the National Police gives directions in the vicinity of the collapse of a building under construction, in the Ópera area, on October 7, 2025, in Madrid (Spain). Three people have been injured in the partial collapse of a six-story building under construction in Calle de las Hileras, in the Ópera area. A total of eleven fire departments of the Madrid City Council with the Air Support Section and the Canine Section of the Municipal Police are searching for possible missing persons. Photo by Matias Chiofalo/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Residential Building Collapsed In Cairo

This photo taken on Dec. 10, 2024 shows the site of a collapsed residential building in Cairo, Egypt. At least eight people have been killed and three others injured following the collapse of a six-story residential building in Cairo on Tuesday, according to the Egyptian Health Ministry. Photo by Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa/ABACAPRESS.COM

Residential Building Collapsed In Cairo

Rescuers work at the site of a collapsed residential building in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 10, 2024. At least eight people have been killed and three others injured following the collapse of a six-story residential building in Cairo on Tuesday, according to the Egyptian Health Ministry. Photo by Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa/ABACAPRESS.COM

Residential Building Collapsed In Cairo

Rescuers work at the site of a collapsed residential building in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 10, 2024. At least eight people have been killed and three others injured following the collapse of a six-story residential building in Cairo on Tuesday, according to the Egyptian Health Ministry. Photo by Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa/ABACAPRESS.COM

Residential Building Collapsed In Cairo

Rescuers work at the site of a collapsed residential building in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 10, 2024. At least eight people have been killed and three others injured following the collapse of a six-story residential building in Cairo on Tuesday, according to the Egyptian Health Ministry. Photo by Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa/ABACAPRESS.COM

Residential Building Collapsed In Cairo

Rescuers work at the site of a collapsed residential building in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 10, 2024. At least eight people have been killed and three others injured following the collapse of a six-story residential building in Cairo on Tuesday, according to the Egyptian Health Ministry. Photo by Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa/ABACAPRESS.COM

Canada: Fire Rips Through Building Under Construction Causing Power Outage In Vancouver

A large fire ripped through a six-story apartment building under construction in Vancouver’s Dunbar neighborhood on Tuesday, August 6. The fire spread to a number of surrounding homes, forcing some residents out of their homes. It also caused a crane collapse which pulled down power lines and led to power outages.

39 killed, 9 injured in east China building fire

STORY: 39 killed, 9 injured in east China building fire SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 25, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 25, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:26 LOCATION: XINYU, China CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU HONG, Mayor of Xinyu City STORYLINE: Thirty-nine people were killed and nine others injured after a building fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in the city of Xinyu in east China's Jiangxi Province, local authorities said. The fire broke out from the building at around 3 p.m. in the Yushui District of Xinyu, said the local fire response emergency headquarters. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU HONG, Mayor of Xinyu City "The fire was put out at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, and the rescue operations concluded at 8:50 p.m.. 39 people were killed and nine others injured. Among the injured, eight are in stable condition, while another one is being rescued." The fire started at the basement of a six-story commercial and residential brick-concrete structure. The flame quickly spread to shops on the first and second floors. A pr

CANADA-TORONTO-GIANT RUBBER DUCK

(230917) -- TORONTO, Sept. 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A tourist takes photos of a giant yellow rubber duck during the 2023 Toronto Waterfront Festival in Toronto, Canada, on Sept. 16, 2023. A six-story giant yellow rubber duck is displayed here from Saturday to Sunday. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua)

CANADA-TORONTO-GIANT RUBBER DUCK

(230917) -- TORONTO, Sept. 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A giant yellow rubber duck is seen during the 2023 Toronto Waterfront Festival in Toronto, Canada, on Sept. 16, 2023. A six-story giant yellow rubber duck is displayed here from Saturday to Sunday. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua)

CANADA-TORONTO-GIANT RUBBER DUCK

(230917) -- TORONTO, Sept. 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A giant yellow rubber duck is seen during the 2023 Toronto Waterfront Festival in Toronto, Canada, on Sept. 16, 2023. A six-story giant yellow rubber duck is displayed here from Saturday to Sunday. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua)

CANADA-TORONTO-GIANT RUBBER DUCK

(230917) -- TORONTO, Sept. 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A boy takes photos of a giant yellow rubber duck during the 2023 Toronto Waterfront Festival in Toronto, Canada, on Sept. 16, 2023. A six-story giant yellow rubber duck is displayed here from Saturday to Sunday. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua)

CANADA-TORONTO-GIANT RUBBER DUCK

(230917) -- TORONTO, Sept. 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People take selfies with a giant yellow rubber duck during the 2023 Toronto Waterfront Festival in Toronto, Canada, on Sept. 16, 2023. A six-story giant yellow rubber duck is displayed here from Saturday to Sunday. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua)

Charging complex provides new recharging solutions for NEVs in E China

STORY: Charging complex provides new recharging solutions for NEVs in E China DATELINE: July 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:09 LOCATION: HEFEI, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the new energy vehicle charging complex building 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CHEN JINGJING, Vice general manager of Hefei Electric Vehicle Charging Facilities Investment and Operation Co., Ltd. 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): HU CHAOHONG, Taxi driver STORYLINE: Hefei's first new energy vehicle charging complex building has recently begun its trial operation in east China's Anhui Province. Charging piles have been installed in all parking spaces in the six-story complex. The complex has a total of 197 parking lots, including 185 for small and medium-size vehicles and 12 for large vehicles such as electric trucks. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CHEN JINGJING, Vice general manager of Hefei Electric Vehicle Charging Facilities Investment and Operation Co., Ltd. "Covering an area of 15,000 square meters, the project has equipped all 19

Mexican univ. building designed by Japan architect Ando

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photo taken April 24, 2013, shows a new building designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando at the University of Monterrey in northern Mexico. The inauguration ceremony for the six-story building was held the same day.

Mexican univ. building designed by Japan architect Ando

LOS ANGELES, United States - Japanese architect Tadao Ando (L) receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Monterrey in northern Mexico on April 24, 2013. An inauguration ceremony was held the same day for a six-story university building Ando designed.

U.S. nuclear cleanup holds lessons for Fukushima crisis

RICHLAND, United States - A number of trucks operate inside a massive pit to dump their loads of contaminated top soil from the Hanford Site, a one-time U.S. nuclear complex, on April 24, 2012. The U.S. Energy Department showed to the press the same day the pit, which is over six story-deep and covers an area roughly equivalent to 52 football fields.

New building for Japanese Embassy in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Photo taken Jan. 23, 2012, shows a building the Japanese government has constructed in Beijing for use as the new Japanese Embassy. The six-story building with one underground floor was completed in July the previous year, but the Chinese authorities have yet to grant permission for using it, claiming it was illegally built.

Dormitories for company employees becoming homes for the aged

TOKYO, Japan - Century Life's Century Port Nishi-Chiba, a six-story, 64-room block of condominium for the aged, is to open in Chiba's Chuo Ward in June.

Himeji Castle building could crumble in fairly powerful quake

HIMEJI, Japan - The main building of Himeji Castle (in file photo), designated as a world cultural heritage site and Japanese national treasure, in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, could collapse in a fairly powerful earthquake, the Architectural Research Association said on Feb. 10. It said the castle's main building, the Daitenshu, a six-story building about 46 meters high, could collapse above the third floor in an earthquake registering a high 5 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7.

2 dead, 5 hurt in Shinjuku building fire

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters try to extinguish a fire that broke out in the six-story Kabukicho Sanyo Building in the Kabukicho entertainment district in Tokyo's Shijuku Ward on Oct. 29. Two people died and five others, including a firefighter, suffered injuries in the fire.

(1)At least 70 die in Philippine hotel fire

MANILA, Philippines - Firefighters recover bodies from the Manor, a small business hotel in the Manila suburb of Quezon City, on Aug. 18 after at least 70 people died and several others were wounded in an early morning fire the same day. Many were apparently sleeping when the fire broke out around 4:45 a.m. inside the six-story hotel.

Eight injured in apartment building gas explosion in north China's Tianjin

STORY: Eight injured in apartment building gas explosion in north China's Tianjin DATELINE: July 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:07 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of firefighters rescuing STORYLINE: Eight people were injured after a gas explosion in a residential building in Beichen District, north China's Tianjin Municipality Tuesday morning. The explosion, which took place at around 7:15 a.m. and damaged the six-story building, has not led to life-threatening injuries, according to local authorities. Rescue and relief work are underway, and the cause of the explosion is under investigation. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tianjin, China. (XHTV)

China to hand over completed new parliament building to Zimbabwe

STORY: China to hand over completed new parliament building to Zimbabwe DATELINE: June 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:11 LOCATION: Harare CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the new parliament building design model on display 2. SOUNDBITE (English): CAI LIBO, Project Manager, Shanghai Construction Group Company 3. interiors of the building, lounges and special committee rooms STORYLINE: Zimbabwe's new parliament building, constructed and fully funded by China as a gift to the southern African country, is now complete and ready for occupation. It took 42 months to complete the project, instead of the original 32-month timeframe due to COVID-19 disruptions. Construction began in November 2018. Sitting on the historical Mt. Hampden Hill, about 18 kilometers northwest of the capital Harare, the six-story building is a fine piece of magnificent architecture that fuses both Zimbabwean and Chinese characteristics. SOUNDBITE (English): CAI LIBO, Project Manager, Shanghai Construction Group Company "This building

Earthquake-resistance test KOBE, Japan - An earthquake-resistance test at the Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center in Miki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 13 in which forces comparable to upper 6-7 in Japanese seismic intensity scale, which would cause substantial property damage and deaths, were applied to a six-story reinforced building. (Kyodo)

Himeji Castle building could crumble in fairly powerful quake

HIMEJI, Japan - The main building of Himeji Castle (in file photo), designated as a world cultural heritage site and Japanese national treasure, in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, could collapse in a fairly powerful earthquake, the Architectural Research Association said on Feb. 10. It said the castle's main building, the Daitenshu, a six-story building about 46 meters high, could collapse above the third floor in an earthquake registering a high 5 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7. (Kyodo)

U.S. nuclear cleanup holds lessons for Fukushima crisis

RICHLAND, United States - A number of trucks operate inside a massive pit to dump their loads of contaminated top soil from the Hanford Site, a one-time U.S. nuclear complex, on April 24, 2012. The U.S. Energy Department showed to the press the same day the pit, which is over six story-deep and covers an area roughly equivalent to 52 football fields. (Kyodo)

New building for Japanese Embassy in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Photo taken Jan. 23, 2012, shows a building the Japanese government has constructed in Beijing for use as the new Japanese Embassy. The six-story building with one underground floor was completed in July the previous year, but the Chinese authorities have yet to grant permission for using it, claiming it was illegally built. (Kyodo)

Christchurch mayor

Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel gives an interview in the central New Zealand city on Feb. 21, 2020. She offered a formal apology on Feb. 23 to families, including from Japan, who lost loved ones in the collapse of a six-story building in a 2011 earthquake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

No prosecution over Christchurch building collapse

File photo taken in March 2011 of the remains of the six-story Canterbury Television Building in Christchurch, New Zealand, that collapsed during the Feb. 22, 2011, earthquake. Police said on Nov. 30, 2017, no one will face prosecution over the collapse that killed 155 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

No prosecution over Christchurch building collapse

File photo taken in February 2011 shows the six-story Canterbury Television Building in Christchurch, New Zealand, following its collapse during an earthquake. Police said on Nov. 30, 2017, they will not pursue criminal charges over the collapse that killed 155 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

2 dead, 5 hurt in Shinjuku building fire

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters try to extinguish a fire that broke out in the six-story Kabukicho Sanyo Building in the Kabukicho entertainment district in Tokyo's Shijuku Ward on Oct. 29. Two people died and five others, including a firefighter, suffered injuries in the fire.